Hello! New Years is coming up and I'm curious what everyone has been reading this year! If you had to recommend just one (yes one!) book you've finished in 2025 what would it be? Doesn't have to be profound, just what stuck with you? For me 2025 was the year of Lonesome Dove, let me know and have a great New Year!
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’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Swing Low by Miriam Toews – a memoir written by the author from the perspective of her father – deeply sad, profoundly moving and full of love
Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil.
I don’t always like V.E. Schwab’s stuff but this was a really good one.
Second Chance by Charlotte Butterfield.
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
*The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth* –Zoe Schlanger
I’m not a big Fiction guy but went into Project Hail Mary blind and loved it.
“The Story of Western Science” by Susan Wise Bauer was a non- fiction joy.
Couldn’t decide between the two, so here’s the big two that stuck with me:
Stoner by John Williams
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
“The Hunt for Red October” by Tom Clancy
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
**The Magus** by John Fowles. Memorable because it follows an unreliable narrator whose self-mythologizing and moral evasions are gradually exposed through an elaborate psychological game. Like really elaborate. And bizarre. And fascinating. It forces you to confront vanity, manipulation, and the stories people tell themselves to feel absolved.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver though with the caveat that I listened to the audiobook. The narrator did an amazing job with the main character.
All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles. It’s an Edwardian historical fiction novel, but it’s also a locked room gothic mystery complete with shrieking heroines in diaphanous nightgowns and gruesome deaths. BUT it’s also a queer grumpy-sunshine second chance romance with a most satisfying HEA.
So late to the game on it but The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.
The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt. It’s sui generis, brilliant, strange and funny and challenging and sad. I loved it.
I read and finished Worm this year.
PHENOMINAL
The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown. It’s the first book in a long bit I almost didn’t sleep bc it was so good! (I like sleep)
*Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones* was exceptional! Best literary horror I’ve read in years!
Just read lonesome dove and it did absolutely live up to the reviews. There’s some competition this year for sure but Piranesi for me. I can’t even really explain what it was about that story that stayed with me
Yours for the Taking! By far